Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-04-29
The Journalist Who sits Up Late.


have been thinking for several weeks
over what a great contributor to the
World recently said about turning night
into day and day into night. The more
| think about it the more I think he is
right. Sitting up nights until away
along into the shank of the evening in
order to battle ones immortal soul in
champagne and tell anecdotes and max g
speeches and clutch at the table cloth
and drink glass of oil and vinegar that
come one has substituted for your own,
and then go home and sprain your ankle
trying to mount skittish bed, is injur-
ious and pernicious, and have about
decided that when l get to be an o Id man
am going to do differently.
Your contributor is right when he says
that this kind of work wears out its gen
Grafton and compels as to bring in a
generation of farmers sons and village
boys to replace it. Then the farmers
sons and village boys do the same thing
and apparently en- Joy it.
But it Is not alone the late dinner and
the receil of Mr.. Munn's celebrated in
ferRal machine that is wearing out a
large army cf our brightest and best
meu. 1t is wearing and destructive to
majority of the night eating sweet cake
and trying to laugh at anecdotes that you
have frequently heard befor; but people
who do this do it from necessity; they
cannot evade it. But if We call this dam
aging and dsplore it in them, what shall
we say of those men who do it voluntari
lyS What shall we say of the news paper
man who sleeps all the forenoon in order
that he may da@dle about the Office of a
morning paper all night, thinking
thoughts and penciling them off for tn.
public, or paving around over wad of
"manifoldn and writing startling heads
to dull kilograms half the night, while his
wife, who has taken time by the forelock
and done her work during daylight, is in
beds
l know that there are men who have
been connected with journalism for
years Who maintain that it is not hab-
it, but that with .hem it is absolutely
necessary. For this reason l consulted
Mr.. James Migglesen of Asheville. who
| edits the Daily Jimplecule, morning
| paper of this place, aSd learned from
| him that it is not necessary to sit up
! nights in order to run morning paper.
| So the wives and mothers of morning
| journalists and printers of New York
| sAould no longer be deceived by this
| time honored fraud upon their trusting
/ natures.
! Mr.. Miggleson says that a rafting
| good morning paper can be worked off
1 the press by supper time, and the even
| ing reserved for social intercourse.
! And yet know pale, studious news
paper man, with silver In his hair, a man
| in whose mouth butter would scarcely
melt, who has, for twenty years and more
| bamboozled his trusting wife and grown
up son with this transparent fraud.
He told ME only short time az o,
with genuine patho., that the first time
| he had seen his own son by daylight was
| last fall. He said that his son came of
| age last October, and through the court
esy of mutual friend the young mans
mother he had the pleasure of meeting
him on election day and forming an &C
/ quaintance, which he says may yet ripeu
/ nto strong friendship.